Genetic Data Contradicts Multiregional Hypothesis

Study
3 (small population size)

Nuclear
Deoxyribonucleic acid: the chemical inside the nucleus of a cell that carries the genetic instructions for making living organisms.DNAThe order of nucleotides in a DNA or RNA molecule, or the order of amino acids in a protein molecule.sequences

Alu
Chromosomal abnormalities in which a DNA sequences are inserted into genes, disrupting the normal structure and function of those genes.insertions

HLA
The regions of a gene that contain the code for producing a specific portion of a gene's protein.exons

Genetic material found in mitochondria, the organelles that generate energy for the cell.mtDNA mismatch distributions

frequency
spectra (Genetic material found in mitochondria, the organelles that generate energy for the cell.mtDNA, Y-chr)

allele
size vs. homozygosity at tandem repeat Multiple places on a chromosome where specific genes or genetic markers are located, a kind of address for the gene.loci

Seven independent measures of
genetic diversity among human populations indicate that the founding human
population must have been very small.1 This genetic
evidence contradicts the multiregional hypothesis, which requires the
presence of large interbreeding populations of hominids.